CHARLESTON (October 12, 2017) – Charleston businesswoman Anita Zucker and her family have made a $5 million contribution to help build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital in Charleston. The Zuckers’ gift was announced during the MUSC Board of Trustees meeting October 12...Continue

Charleston, S.C. – May 14, 2015 –The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) today announced a $25 million gift from Charleston businessman Shawn Jenkins to help build the new MUSC Children’s Hospital in downtown Charleston. Jenkins’ gift was made public during the MUSC Board of Trustees meeting on May 14, 2015, and is the largest philanthropic contribution in the Medical University’s history....Continue

S.C. House takes a big step forward in funding new hospital

The S.C. House of Representatives has approved $25 million in its budget for a new MUSC Children’s Hospital and Women’s Pavilion.

The House Ways and Means Committee had earlier recommended borrowing $50 million for the project as part of a $500 million bond bill. However, when the bond bill failed to pass the full House, lawmakers submitted the smaller funding request in a separate capital reserve bill (H3702), which passed. ...Continue

CHARLESTON, S.C.— SCE&G today presented a $500,000 check for the new MUSC Children’s Hospital and Women’s Pavilion. The gift is one of the largest single donations in the company’s history. Dr. David J. Cole, MUSC President, received the check from Danny Kassis, SCE&G Vice President of Customer Service and Renewables, and George Bullwinkel, retired SCANA Sr. Vice President, and Children’s Hospital Board Member. Thad Bostian, a journeyman lineman with SCE&G, his wife Emily, son Michael and daughter Emma Grace, who is being treated at Children’s Hospital for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, donated two large baskets of toys from SCE&G for the Happy Wheels Cart, which visits between 80-100 children each week....Continue